In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Yuan Chun rises on a whim and plays with the sisters in the air.
He ordered someone to send a riddle from the palace for the sisters to guess the answer; at the same time, he asked the sisters to write the riddle and send it to let her guess the answer.
Coming and going, asking questions and answers, very lively, very festive atmosphere.
Yuan Chun's riddle, all the sisters and brothers guessed the correct answer, but Yingchun and Jia Huan were wrong.
The riddle that everyone gave yuanchun, whether the answer written by yuanchun was correct or not, everyone would say "right or right", but Yuanchun did not give Jia Huan this opportunity, and even the answer was not written, only "The third master did not make this clear, and the mother did not guess".
The mystery that Jia Huan did really did not make sense.
First of all, the question is, why can Jia Huan participate in this activity?
Under normal circumstances, the activities of the female relatives and girls in Jia Province can only be mixed in by Jia Baoyu.
This is not in line with the etiquette of the time, but Jia Baoyu can always mess with his sisters because jia mu is doting.
The participants of the Yuan Chun Lantern Riddle Activity included various sisters such as relatives, cousins, cousins, as well as brothers and nephews.
Internal and external relatives are different from each other.
In terms of female dependents, Tanchun is Yuanchun's sister and half-sister.
Yingchun is the daughter of Yuanchun's uncle Jia Shu and a serious cousin.
Xi Chun is the daughter of Jia Jing of the Ningguo Prefecture next door, and is said to be Yuan Chun's "Cong Sister" in terms of blood relations, with the same clan but different branches.
There are also Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochao, the daughters of Aunt Yuanchun and Aunt Yuanchun respectively.
From the perspective of blood relations, the relationship between Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochao and Yuan Chun is actually closer;
However, under the framework structure of the patriarchal society, Jia Xichun, who has the same surname Jia, looks more like a family.
In short, the sisters, regardless of their blood lineage, can participate in the activities in one place, which is no problem.
As for Jia Huan and Jia Lan being able to "blend in", it is because one of them is a brother and the other is a nephew.
Jia Lian, who is the same father as Yingchun, and Jia Zhen, who is the same father as Xichun, cannot be mixed into this lantern riddle activity.
One is because the two are older and have deacons, and they are different from their younger siblings who study at home and have nothing to do;
The more important essential reason is that there is a long distance between blood relations and the difference between men and women.
Jia Huan and Jia Lan are not in this range.
Jia Lan is the son of Jia Zhu, the nephew of Jia Yuanchun's concubine, and like Jia Baoyu, he is his closest relative.
Jia Huan was Jia Zheng's son-in-law and Jia Yuanchun's titular younger brother.
Half-siblings are very difficult to deal with, but on the surface, it is a "family" in a small family.
Yuan Chun resented Jia Huan from the perspective of his mother's relationship, and from the perspective of character, he hated Jia Huan's unbearable and viciousness, and it was inconvenient to directly show traces of "not taking him to play" at the festival.
Therefore, Jia Huan can "blend in".
It is worth noting that this is different from Jia Yuanchun's provincial pro-family time, when the younger brother of the same father and mother,Jia Baoyu was still "unashamed and did not dare to trespass", and had to wait for Jia Yuanchun's summons.
After all, the lantern riddle activity is only an object, a letter, a text exchange, and people do not meet.
Brothers and nephews of the family, and not formal royal activities, do not have to follow the "male and female differences" etiquette defense.
Jia Huan mixed into this riddle activity, only to learn shallow is very incomprehensible, in vain "shame".
The relationship is not hard enough, the ability is not strong enough, "a good opportunity to do riddles with the mother-in-law" is just one more bad thing to "be ugly in public".